Colmar, France PWC provides an international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC'2005 is the tenth conference of this series and is sponsored by IFIP WG 6.8, and will be held in Colmar, France. The conference will consist of three days of scientific presentations. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Mobile and Wireless Net ...

Edinburgh, UK The 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2005) will be held from 24 to 29 of July 2005> in Edinburgh. UM'2005 will be held in Edinburgh, UK, and organized under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc. UM'2005 is the latest in a conference series begun in 1986 and follows UM 2003 in Pittsburgh (2003) UM 2001 in Sonthofen (2001), UM'99 in Banff (1999), UM'97 in Sardinia (1997), UM'96 in Hawaii (1996), UM'94 in Cape Cod (1994), and several earlier workshops. The User Mo ...

Dresden, Germany New paradigms in the areas of network design, transmission technology, hardware and software solutions, applications, services, and business model are required to meet the demands of the envisioned ‘all- communicating’ world and an ambient intelligence. The arising challenges are currently being addressed in a number of research projects within the European Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. Being the second major event of the European Sixth Framework Programme ...

Aix-en-Provence, France For nearly two decades, CSFW has brought together a small group of researchers to examine foundational issues in information security. Many seminal papers and techniques were first presented at CSFW. We are interested both in new theoretical results in computer security and also in more exploratory presentations that examine open questions and raise fundamental concerns about existing theories. Panel proposals are welcome as well as papers. Possible topics include, but ...

Montgomery, Alabama Bill Willis, Expo Event Coordinator City of Montgomery Civic Center PO Box 4037 Montgomery, Alabama 36104-4037 bwillis@civic-center.ci.montgomery.al.us

Montreal, Canada In face of the emerging notion of seamless services and next generation networks (NGNs) driven by the convergence of the mobile Internet and fixed / mobile telecommunication networks, mobility aware technologies and middleware play an important role. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for academic and industrial researchers and developers from the IT, Internet and telecommunications domains, as well as network operators and service providers, to discuss the advances in mobility aware technologies and their applications in the field of NGN. +1 (514) 340-3215

Edinburgh, Scotland The 3rd Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference will be organised by the School of Design and Media Arts at Napier University, Edinburgh in participation with the Design Education Special Interest Group (DESIG) of the Design Society and the institution of Engineering Designers, UK (IED). The official conference language will be English. Conference Aims The conference aims to explore novel approaches in design education within he wider context ...

Columbus, Ohio With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology, research in distributed computing is beginning to extend its scope to address problems relevant to mobile environments. Mobile distributed computing has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and practice toward support for mobility. It is concerned with creating solutions using mobile communication networks and mobile computing devices to enable the sharing of distributed resources/services and to fac ...

University of Bath, UK UK-UbiNet is an EPSRC funded network of research in the U.K. in the area of Ubiquitous Computing. One of the main means of exchanging information in UK-UbiNet is workshops and conferences. The aim is to make these conferences as open and as inclusive as possible in order to foster growth of the research community. The community covers many aspects of research into ubiquitous computing, including networks, sensors, distributed systems, interaction, social factors, security ...

Lappeenranta, Finland WAWC'05 workshop is aimed at researchers and professionals interested in the applicability of the wireless communications and it is to be held in conjunction with the 14th Summer School on Telecommunications. WAWC'05 will highlight the latest research and developments in the wireless communication technologies with major emphasis on the applications of the wireless communications. Scope/Topics Applications on wireless communication should concentrate at one of the follo ...

Paris, France ASWN 2005 is the fifth workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks. The workshop addresses the challenges and advances in future wireless applications and services that span all wireless architectures and technologies, such as cellular, WLAN, WPAN, ad hoc, and sensor networks. The format of the workshop is based on three-day single-track sessions, with presentations of invited and regular papers from academia and industry. This year's special theme is the impact of ...

North Charleston, SC Theme: "Bridging the Gap Between Technology and The Future Warfighter

Washington, DC In it’s 7th year, this internationally recognized conference is designed to serve as the primary source of information for end users, developers, and manufactures of portable power devices. Topics addressed by the leading experts in this emerging field from government, academia and government include: • Toshiba DMFC for portable applications • Whole fuel cell product solution for the consumer electronic industry • DMFC portable power products at MTI MicroFuel Cells: Present a ...

Grindelwald, Switzerland SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on the Web, The Internet, and Multimedia World Modelling and Simulation Forum (WMSF) PURPOSE IASTED’s International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications will act as an opportunity for international research scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research, ideas, developments, and applications in these f ...

Polytechnic University of Valencia(UPV), Spain The following, non exclusive, topics are called for: Computer Entertainment and: 1. Art and Media 2. Augmented / Mixed Reality 3. Avatars and Virtual Action 4. Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware 5. Graphics Techniques 6. Haptics 7. Interfaces 8. Military Training / Simulation Applications of Games 9. Mobile Entertainment 10. Mobile Phones 11. Narratives 12. Networking 13. New Genres, 14. New Standards 15. Novel Hardware Devices 16. Physics / AI, 17. Social Computing 18. Sound and Music Tel: +34 639 686 296

San Diego, CA The 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the emerging area of embedded, networked sensors. These distributed systems of smart sensors and actuators connecting computational capabilities to the physical world have the potential to revolutionize the way in which the real world is instrumented, monitored, and controlled. Such systems present a wide range ...

Portland, OR The ADEAC Exhibition will include display modules, display electronics and interfaces, human-machine interface design software, optical enhancement films, touch systems, backlights and inverters, projection components, and measurement systems. ADEAC 2005 will be held in beautiful Portland, Oregon, which is a center of display engineering activity in the Pacific Northwest. The active support of the Oregon Display Systems Consortium - which includes companies such as HP, Plana ...

Montreal, Canada Advanced Industrial Conference on Wireless Technologies 2005 (ICW 2005) is intended to inaugurate a series of conferences focusing around fixed and mobile wireless technologies. The acceptance of the next generation wireless communications depends to a large extent on the services offered to customers. Beyond 3G technologies and systems have been envisaged as an evolution and convergence of wireless&mobile communications systems combined with IP-based technologies. Wireless t ...

Tampere, Finland Welcome International scientific conference, the first in the series ‘Ambience’, will be held in Tampere, Finland on 19-20 September, 2005. The conference will focus on intelligent ambience including intelligent textiles, smart garments, intelligent home and living environment. Technology and technical innovations, design methods, consumer behaviour and preferences, physiology and well-being are some of the topics for research papers and presentations. Academics, scientific ...

Omaha, Nebraska Hosted by: Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Department The Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) College of Information Science and Technology University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, Nebraska, USA "A Conference on a Human Scale"

Hong Kong, Chna • Parallel / Distributed System . Grid Computing, Cluster Computing, • Architectures • Peer-to-Peer Computing • Advanced Microprocessor Architecture • Internet & Web computing • Middleware, Software Tools and Environments • Pervasive and Mobile Computing Parallelizing Compilers • Security in networks & distributed systems • Software Engineering issues • Fault tolerance and dependability • Interconnection Networks Image Generation and Processing: • Network Protocols • Rendering Techniques, Virtual Reality, • Task Scheduling and Load Balancing • Visualization, Graphic Processing, etc

Las Vegas, Nevada, he 2005 International Conference on Biometric Authentication (BIOAU'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 20-23, 2005. The BIOAU'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (IKE'05, SAM'05, METMBS'05, VISION'05, AMCS'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission information). All a ...

Tarragona, CAT, Spain The 7th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application IFIP Conference, organized by IFIP Working Groups WG 8.8 and WG 11.2, will be held in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, April 19-21, 2006. Since 1994, CARDIS is the foremost international conference dedicated to Smart Card research and application. Every two years the scientific community congregates to present new ideas and to discuss recent developments. Also 2006, thirty eight years after Jürgen Dethloff and ...

Auckland, New Zealand The CHINZ conferences provide a general forum for all those involved with CHI (or HCI) to address the human use of technology. We welcome full length research papers in all areas of this diverse field and especially encourage graduate students to present at the conference. There will be workshops on 6 July and poster sessions during the conference, at which we would encourage industry practitioners to present. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: natural int ...

Paris, France CONTEXT-05 will include oral paper presentations, a demonstration and poster session, workshops, and a doctoral consortium. It will provide a forum for presenting and discussing high-quality research and applications on context in a wide range of disciplines including: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Law,Linguistics, Medicine, Organizational Sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Ubiquitous Computing, etc. CONTEXT-05 is the latest event in the oldest conf ...

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Conference on Computers for People with Special Needs (CPSN'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 20-23, 2005. The CPSN'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (IKE'05, SAM'05, METMBS'05, VISION'05, AMCS'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission informatio ...

Aarhus, Denmark We are proud to invite you to participate in the 2005 conference in Aarhus, entitled "Critical Computing - between Sense and Sensibility". The conference is held in cooperation with ACM/SIGCHI. Continuing the tradition from the conferences in 1975, 1985 and 1995, it is the aim of the fourth Aarhus conference to provide a forum for the exploration and development of new perspectives for critical computing. As information technology reaches out from the workplace to virtually ...

Huntington Beach, CA 70 new technologies. 2 days. 1 place. Rigorously screened from hundreds of technologies from around the world, you'll see only the most significant, relevant and viable. The ones that exemplify and lead emerging trends. We do all the vetting so you can do a lot of business in a very efficient two days. At DEMOfall, it's all about technology. This is a show like no other. Each company who launches here, regardless of size, faces the same screening process. Marketing budg ...

Cleveland, OH The rapid developments in mobile and wireless communication technologies and the continuing miniaturization computing devices make it possible to create ubiquitous information environments. The emergence of ubiquitous computing as the next wave of organizational computing offers new possibilities and opportunities for organizations to improve their productivity and effectiveness. Companies like FedEx and UPS are investing millions of dollars to upgrade their wireless network infra ...

Benevento/Napoli, Campania, Italy Digital Communities is an international network of scholars, policy makers, and urban analysts who share an interest in the relationship between information technologies and urban life. The Digital Communities conference in 2005 is in Benevento and Napoli, Italy. The conference will explore a wide range of themes associated with information technology, the knowledge economy, technology policy, and the significance of place in cyberspace. Of special interest ...

Porto, Portugal The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) addresses all aspects of (embedded) digital and mixed hardware/software system engineering. It is a discussion forum for researchers and engineers working on state-of-the-art investigations, development, and applications. It focuses on advanced system, design, and design automation concepts, paradigms, methods and tools, as well as, modern implementation technologies that enable effective and efficient development of high ...

Newcastle upon Tyne, England Interactive systems, the human computer interface and support for collaboration present significant challenges for software engineers. Developments in ubiquitous and mobile computing have brought further challenges to interface designers and developers. Specification and verification techniques are required that can manage the diversity of platforms and interaction styles. Techniques are required that can be used to specify and verify such systems taking account of ...

Lisbon, Portugal E-learning refers to on-line learning delivered over the World Wide Web via the public Internet or the private, corporate intranet. The workshop on E-learning on Telecommunications event [ELETE 2005] is intended to provide an overview of technologies, approaches, and trends that are happening right now. The constraints of e-learning are diminishing and options are increasing as the Web becomes increasingly easy to use and the technology becomes better and less expensive. As t ...

Zadar, Croatia The 47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 focused on Multimedia Communications and Services will be held in the beautiful old town Zadar on the Croatian Adriatic coast. While the scientific program is expected to create stimulating professional interaction, the crystal clear Adriatic Sea, warm June atmosphere and wealth of historic monuments promise a pleasant and memorable stay. The aim of the symposium is to promote the interface of researchers involved in the development, de ...

Boston,MA CMP Media's Embedded Systems Conference Boston, the most important educational forum on the East Coast for engineers and engineering managers developing intelligent systems that incorporate processor based technology, took place September 13-16, 2004 at the Hynes Convention Center. This year's Embedded Systems Conference, co-located with Embedded Security Seminar , continues to deliver the robust technical content you have come to expect. Exhibitor Information: Manufacturers, distr ...

Taipei, Taiwan Take your solutions to China, the fastest growing market for embedded technologies Growth in China's electronics industry is consistently outpacing the rest of the world. As the functions of data processing, communications and consumer electronics technologies converge, designers will be working more and more frequently with embedded systems. ESC-China lets you demonstrate your products to potential end users face-to-face. The event is a great way to connect with China's develo ...

Oud Sint Jan,Brugge, Belgium The IMAPS EMPC is Europe’s premier conference related to microelectronic packaging and interconnection technologies. Planned every two years in a different European country, for the past 28 years, it brings together specialists from industry and academia. The EMPC conference addresses „everything in electronics between the chip and the system”. The Technical Programme Committee of the EMPC 2005 invites abstracts of original work describing recent developmen ...

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The ESA'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'05, CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission information). All ...

Lisboa, Portugal Topic 1 - Support Tools and Environments Topic 2 - Performance Prediction and Evaluation Topic 3 - Scheduling and Load Balancing Topic 4 - Compilers for High Performance Topic 5 - Parallel and Distributed Databases, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Topic 6 - Grid and Cluster Computing: Models, Middleware and Architectures Topic 7 - Parallel Computer Architecture and ILP Topic 8 - Distributed Systems and Algorithms Topic 9 - Parallel Programming: Models, Methods, and ...

Edinburgh, Scotland Returning to the U.K. for the first time in almost a decade, the 25th International Display Research Conference: EuroDisplay 2005 will attract display-industry decision makers and engineers, plus consumers with a key interest in display technology, from Asia, Europe and North America. The latest edition of the triennial conference will take place from Sept. 19-22 at the Ediburgh International Conference Center in Edinburgh, Scotland, and offers a golden opportunity to learn ...

Aichi Japan Theme : NATURE'S WISDOM This is not a theme that we have chosen lightly. Lacking vast open spaces and abundant mineral resources, Japan has achieved its current economic development and prosperity through the diligence and ingenuity of its people. Yet in the process we have inadvertently sacrificed our human values on the altar of economic efficiency. Only recently have we realized the enormity of our loss. Though pleased with our industrial growth and economic development, we re ...

Taormina, Sicily, Italy Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of trust, security and privacy in the field of ubiquitous computing are solicited for submission to the 1st International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing (TSPUC 2005). Papers may present theory, applications or practical experiences on topics including, but not limited to: key establishment and key distribution access control models, policies and mechanisms trust management ...

San Francisco, CA The 2005 event will focus special attention on the Asian, European and North American marketplace for flexible displays and applications in which they are beginning to appear… such as e-books, clothing and military applications. Advanced manufacturing techniques, portable power sources, plastic electronics and display backplanes will also be discussed. Conference participants will have ample opportunity to network and discuss the latest business issues with industry experts, ...

Sanibel Island, FL GROUP 2005 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners who are interested in topics related to computer-based systems that have an impact on groups, organizations and social networks. Relevant issues include design, implementation, deployment, evaluation, methodologies, and effect of these systems. In the last few years, the functionality and applicability of systems for supporting group work has expanded, leading to their growing application to organizational ...

Big Island, Hawaii MINITRACK on Energy Management in Mobile and Pervasive Computing Systems Recently, the increasing diffusion of wireless technologies and the proliferation of portable devices has produced a revolutionary change in our information society starting the era of mobile computing. At the same time, hardware and software progresses have provided the basic ingredients for implementing a new computing paradigm known as pervasive computing. However, the potentialities of mobile and pe ...

You are cordially invited to participate in HCI International 2005 and the affiliated conferences which are jointly held under one management and one registration. The conference objective is to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of HCI, usability, internationalization, virtual reality, universal access and cognitive ergonomics. This will be accomplished through the following six modes of communic ...

Istanbul, Turkey Thanks to innovative electronic fabrics, smart clothes which almost became mini computers, form the future of technical textiles. Hightex 2005 will bring technology developers and producers of this sector together with investors, distributors and consumers. Innovative fabrics and clothes made of technical textiles, which every consumer will buy in future, will be displayed in Hightex 2005 halls, open to visitors. Smart textiles will be introduced to media and public ...

Cambridge, UK Welcome to website of The Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. To be held at at the University of Cambridge, UK, from 2-5 August 2005, the conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the humanities, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by teachers and researchers. This is a confer ...

Durban, South Africa ICCM-15 will take place at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Durban, South Africa from 27 June to 01 July 2005. This will be the premier event on the composites, smart materials and nano composites calendar. LOCATION: Durban, located on the sub-tropical east coast of South Africa, is within convenient distance of several holiday resorts, game and nature reserves. The ICC is an internationally recognised venue, having hosted several prestigious international con ...

Zhangjiajie, China This conference was endorsed by China Computer Federation and the IEEE Computer Society On Distributed Processing. It is also in cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Beijing Center and Hunan Computer Society Recent advances in computer networks and mobile computing have set the scene for introducing new theories, techniques and services. The 2005 International Conference on Computer Networks and Mobile Computing (ICCNMC 2005) invites high-quality recent research results ...

25th Anniversary In conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of ICDCS, a DVD will be issued containing all the Proceedings of this and past 24 conferences. All past general and program co-chairs and VIPs will be invited to participate in the celebration. Scope Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Autonomic Computing - Network Pr ...

Sanda, Japan We invite you to participate in the prestigious 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2005). Entertainment is taking a very important role in our life by refreshing our mind and activating our creativity. By the recent advancement of computers and networks new types of entertainment have emerged, such as video games, entertainment robots, and network games. Based on the very successful preceding workshop and conferences, the next ICEC 2005 has been set up to ...

Shanghai, China As society increasingly depends on software, the size and complexity of software systems continue to grow making them more difficult to understand and evolve. Manifold dependencies between critical elements of software now drive software architectures and increasingly influence the system architecture. Complexity of software systems has grown significantly, pervading several key application areas including Manufacturing, Communications, Transportation, Internet, Mobile, Healthca ...

Las Vegas, NV Conference Theme - Forever New Frontiers The idea of new frontiers in information technology (IT) research brings forth many images, all of which involve exploration, transformational change, high risks, and high returns. Just when we think we know the implications of previous frontiers, new frontiers have emerged that have continued to transform how we work, live, and conduct business throughout the world. The next new ideas that can lead us to new frontiers in informat ...

Singapore In the tradition of earlier biennial ICMAT conferences, the Materials Research Society of Singapore will host 3rd ICMAT from 3 to 8 July 2005. In conjunction with this conference, the International Union of Materials Research Societies’ 9th International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM) will also be held. The last three conferences in this long and popular series (IUMRS-ICMA) were held at Beijing, China (1999), Cancun, Mexico (2001) and Yokohama, Japan (2003). All 25 tech ...

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The ICOMP'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (CISST'05, ICAI'05, PDPTA'05, SERP'05, CIC'05, ...). The last set of conferences (ICOMP'05 and affiliated events) had research contributions from 78 countries (the event held in Las Vegas had over 1,450 participants from ...

Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada The first edition of ICOST in 2003 took place in Europe. The second edition was hosted in Asia. With a third edition in North America, ICOST reaches the status of a de facto world wide conference. ICOST aims at creating an active research community dedicated to explore how smart homes in particular and health telematics in general can foster independent living and an enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people. On the one hand, smart homes are augmented enviro ...

Fukuoka, Japan In cooperation with Fukuoka City, IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) SIGDPS, IEEE Taipei Section, IEEE HonKong Section, SCAT PURPOSE AND SCOPE The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005) provides an international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed systems. All papers accepted for ICPAD ...

Crete Greece Pervasive services and computing are emerging as the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This exciting new paradigm is the result of recent research and technological advances in wireless & sensor networks, distributed systems, mobile & agent computing and autonomic computing & services. The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS’2005), to be held in the beautiful island ...

Palmerston North, NZ The Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, is pleased to announce that the International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2005) will be held on the 21st – 23rd November 2005 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. ICST 2005 is intended to provide a common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the area of sensing tec ...

Sydney, Australia The Fifth International Conference on Web Engineering will be held in July 2005 in Sydney, Australia at the University of Technology, Sydney. The ICWE'05 Conference continues the tradition of ICWE'04 in Munich, Germany, ICWE'03 in Oviedo, Spain, ICWE'02 in Santa Fé, Argentina and ICWE'01 in Cáceres, Spain. The ICWE'05 conference aims to bring together the international community of experts in Web Engineering research, practice and education, to share their experiences and to ...

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The ICWN'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'05, CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, CIC'05, ...). The last set of conferences (ICWN'05 and affiliated events) had research contributions from 78 countries (the event held in Las Vegas had over 1,450 participant ...

Guangzhou, China Mobile Computing Mobile Applications Mobile Internet; mobile office; mobile games; mobile e-commerce; m-payment; wireless multimedia Mobile System Platforms Mobile OS and User Interface Mobile Internet Wireless and Mobile Networks: Wireless Personal Area Networking; Wireless Home LAN; Wi-Fi; WLAN 3G/4G/UMTS/IMT2000 UWB/Bluetooth Mobile Devices Mobile Security: Access; Data; Device security Location Based Services Capacity and Bandwidth Resource Managemen ...

Hsinchu, Taiwan About the Conference The IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2005 is the international forum for advances in solid-state circuitsdesign held in Asia. The conference is supported by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. 1. Analog: Analog and mixed-signal circuits including, but not limited to, amplifiers, A/D, D/A converters, etc. 2. Wireless and Wireline Communications: Circuits related to RF and wireline communications. 3. Digital: Digital circuits and rel ...

Terrasini - Palermo, Italy CAMP 2005 is the seventh in a series of workshops initiated with CAMP '91 in Paris. The CAMP workshops represent a continuation of the very successful IEEE CAPAMI (Computer Architectures for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) workshops held during the 1970's and 1980's. The purpose of CAMP Workshops is to bring together researchers who seek to improve the performance of machine perception systems through a combination of specialized hardware and software. ...

Dublin, Ireland The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2005) will be held on June 23-24, 2005 at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. CBMS 2005 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committee on Computational Medicine, TCCM); Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin; and Science Foundation Ireland. The symposium provides a mechanism for the exchange of ideas and technologies between academicians and industrial scientists who are de ...

Las Vegas, NV IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. CCNC 2006 will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as mid ...

San Diego, CA ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applicati ...

The Big Island, Hawaii IEEE SMC 2005 is dedicated to Professor Andrew P. Sage for his outstanding contributions to systems theory, decision support systems, and for international leadership in systems engineering. Location: The 2005 IEEE SMC international conference will be held on the Big Island of Hawaii, USA. The venue is Waikoloa Hilton Village, arguably the best resort hotel in the State of Hawaii. The premises include a monorail system and a boat, by which guests can check into their r ...

Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii Recent years have witnessed an enormous growth in the development and applications of mobile computing environments and devices. Many practitioners envision a future empowered with context and location aware computation and communication infrastructure that allow users to access data and receive service at any place and any time. Compared to conventional platforms, the mobility of computing nodes introduces many challenges to the design of almost all systems compon ...

Athens, Greece SCOPE: The focus of this conference is two-fold: Security and Privacy in wireless, mobile, ad hoc, sensor, personal-area and RFID networks Security and Privacy in pervasive and ubiquitous computing The conference aims to bring together academic, industrial and government researchers, practitioners, standards developers and policy makers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Wireless Network Security (WiFi, WiMAX, WiMedia and others) Sensor and Mobile Ad ...

Cleveland, Ohio The rapid developments in mobile and wireless communication technologies and the continuing miniaturization computing devices make it possible to create ubiquitous information environments. The emergence of ubiquitous computing as the next wave of organizational computing offers new possibilities and opportunities for organizations to improve their productivity and effectiveness. The emergence of ubiquitous information environments challenges many of the traditional assumptions ...

Seoul, Korea The 5th International Meeting on Information Display and Exhibition (IMID'05) will be held during July 19 ~ 23, 2005 in the COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul, Korea. The IMID'05 is co-organized by KIDS (Korean Information Display Society), SID (Society for Information Display), EDIRAK (Electronic Display Industrial Research Association of Korea), Displaybank, and The Electronic Times. Since its inception in 2001, the IMID grows every year in the number of participants ...

San Diego, CA INSS 2005 is planned to provide a unique and interactive environment to gather researchers from a wide range of backgrounds, networking and sensing fields, to discuss the issues and to present novel and potential system solutions for networked sensing systems. It is the second in a series of annual meetings with a highly selective single-track technical program. Rapid technology advancements in miniature sensors, low power microelectronics, wireless communication and network have ...

Colchester, UK Intelligent Environments are becoming one of the hot topics for industrial and academic research. Intelligent Environments are public and private spaces such as cars, shopping malls, work, homes and even our own bodies which respond “thoughtfully” to our needs. Such environments are constituted by numerous networked embedded computing appliances offering functionalities related to the individual appliances in addition to the range of collective functionalities offered through co ...

Rome, Italy The INTERACT '05 conference will highlight to both the academic and industrial world the importance of the Human-Computer Interaction area and its most recent breakthroughs on current applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: - Multi-modal Interfaces - Context-dependent Systems - End User Development - Intelligent Environments - Tangible Interfaces - Novel User Interfaces - Usability Evaluation - Location-aware Interaction - Model-based Desi ...

New Delhi, India Theme: Self-Organization and Cognitive Systems Sub-themes Models, Methodologies and Tools in Self Organizing Systems Self Organization in Molecular Biology Biological and Ecological Dynamics Social Dynamics Computational Models Artificial Intelligence Web Intelligence Mobile Applications Medical Informatics Neurosciences Adaptive Learning Systems Context Aware Learning Technologies Building and Modeling Learning Communities Sustainable Technologies for Education Distance Learning – Frameworks and Technologies + 91 – 11 – 2658 1017

Las Vegas, NV The International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) is soliciting technical papers for oral and poster presentation at ICCE 2005. ICCE is an annual even sponsored by the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, with authors and attendees from around the world. The scope of the conference includes all aspects of equipment that is owned or leased by consumers, including entertainment, communication, appliances, recording, music and home office. Papers on new equipment, system c ...

London, UK We invite you to contribute your work to the Industrial Exhibition Program at the BSN Workshop for demonstrating your most up-to-date products that are of interest to the BSN community. Areas of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: Novel Bioelectrical, Mechanical, Biochemical and Biophysical sensors Hardware considerations: low power RF transceiver, energy scavenging, battery technology, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing Biocompatibil ...

Oslo, Norway Wireless networks have experienced an explosive growth during the last few years. The development of cellular, as well as wireless local and metropolitan area networks gradually makes the notion of ubiquitous computing a reality. As one of the most advanced application of wireless networks, the sensor networks share the similar definition, but put more stringent resource conditions at each sensor node. Researches have led effective means to implement wireless networks and allow use ...

San Francisco, CA This two-day event will highlight emerging technologies being developed by more than 50 small, mostly privately-held medical technology companies seeking strategic partners and/or investment. The meeting will draw an attendance of up to 400 senior executives from the investment community and major medical technology, biopharmaceutical, biotech, and other companies. Tap into the opportunities about to emerge in the medical industry marketplace! Planned coverage includes pres ...

Berlin, Germany The Industrial Simulation Conference 2005 (ISC-2005) is the third annual international Simulation conference, which aims to give a complete overview of industrial simulation related research and to provide an annual status report on present day industrial simulation research for the European Community and the rest of the world. With the integration of artificial intelligence, agents and other modelling techniques, simulation has become an effective and appropriate decision sup ...

Osaka, Japan ISWC2005, the ninth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing. We invite you to attend ISWC 2005 and submit to one or more of the following categories: papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials, and exhibits.

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The ISWS'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'05, CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission information). All a ...

Columbus, Ohio 5th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing Through the latest technological developments, researchers have the possibility to deploy applications on a larger scale beyond scenarios within the lab environment. For the exploration of such new larger-scale scenarios, enabling hardware and software are essentially required. These include new kinds of embedded and smart devices, personal and wearable computers, infrastructure components, software architectu ...

Manchester, England For most people sudden change is a daunting prospect. So next year's termination of global quotas brings a great deal of uncertainty, and alarm, with the dawn of a brand new trading era. But these changes will not be sudden, because in some instances, the effects of quota removal have happened already such as the closures in Europe and America's knitting industries, which have been widely reported. But the spotlight has not shone too brightly on the huge raft of new product ...

Karlsruhe Convention Center, Germany LinuxTag is the most important event for free and open-source software in Europe. Last year, over 16,000 visitors took advantage of the unique combination of conferences, tutorials and exhibits. Now in its tenth year, LinuxTag will provide the latest information for professional users, decision-makers and researchers, as well as for developers, newcomers and the free software community. The Free Lecture Program: June 23 - 25, 2005 A number of parallel lect ...

Munich, Germany 8th International Trade Fair for Materials Applications, Surface Technology and Processes in Automotive, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Sports and Consumer Goods MATERIALICA is a new type of industry-oriented trade fair and more than just a product exhibition: MATERIALICA is a community gathering for product engineering in Europe. It promotes dialog between product developers, designers, buyers, manufacturers and suppliers, and it covers the entire range of materials applic ...

Munich, Germany MATERIALICA is a new type of industry-oriented trade fair and more than just a product exhibition: MATERIALICA is a community gathering for product engineering in Europe. It promotes dialog between product developers, designers, buyers, manufacturers and suppliers, and it covers the entire range of materials applications in all sectors. By focusing on integrated solutions, MATERIALICA performs an important function: trade visitors are searching for semi-finished goods, componen ...

Copenhagen, Denmark Wireless communication technologies provide a pervasive base for mobile computing, which involves mobility of users, hardware, software and data. As the mobile computing technology matures, millions of mobile users start accessing various distributed information resources. Emergence of wireless sensor networks introduces new challenges in processing continuously changing sensor data streams. The focus of this workshop is on issues in mobile systems and databases. A particul ...

Cologne, Germany ACM MobiCom 2005, the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, will be held August 28 through September 2, 2005, in beautiful, historic Cologne, Germany. ACM MobiCom 2005, sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE, is dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and networking. This highly selective, single-track conference serves as the premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. We look forward to seeing you in Cologne for MobiCom 2005!

San Diego, California The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologie ...

Seattle, Washington Overview MobiSys 2005 seeks to present innovative, significant research in the area of mobile and wireless systems. This will be a 2.5-day conference, featuring refereed paper presentations, demos, and poster sessions; it will be co-located with several closely related workshops. This conference builds on the success of the first two MobiSys conferences, held in San Francisco and Boston, which featured many high-caliber research papers and many interesting posters and demo ...

Skamania, Washington For fifteen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. For 2005, NOSSDAV will take place in Skamania, Washington. Located along the beautiful Columbia River about 30 miles east of Portland, Oregon, Skamania offers a variety of outdoor activ ...

Bangkok, Thailand The Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) is the AIS-affiliated Information Systems event in the Asia Pacific region. PACIS was established with an objective to provide a high-quality international forum for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to exchange ideas on the adoption of leading information-related technologies and practices. Now in its 9th year, PACIS will focus on the roles, functions and impacts of information and communication technologi ...

Volos, Greece The Greek Computer Society (EPY) and the Department of Computer & Communication Engineering of University of Thessaly are organizing the 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI'2005) at Volos, Greece, during 11-13 of November 2005. The PCI is a biannual event established by EPY. The 1st conference took place at Athens (1984), the 2nd at Thessaloniki (1988), the 3rd at Athens (1991), the 4th at Patras (1993), the 5th at Athens (1995), the 6th at Athens (1997), the 7th at ...

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The PDPTA'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, CIC'05, ...). The last set of conferences (PDPTA'04 and affiliated events) had research contributions from 78 countries (the event held ...

Las Vegas, Nevada The 2005 International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The PLC'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'05, CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission informatio ...

Las Vegas, Nevada The 2005 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PSC'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The PSC'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'05, CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission information). ...

Hong Kong, China RTCSA 2005 is going to be held in Hong Kong. Carry on with the tradition, the RTCSA conference series, will bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry for advancing the technology of embedded and real-time computing systems and applications.RTCSA seeks both research and industry track papers that describe research or technical aspects in the area of embedded and real-time systems. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be published in one or more special issue of international journal.

Fukuoka, Japan Ubiquitous computing leads to the appearance of new networked devices and creates a unique challenge by the proliferation of distributed computing involving all heterogeneous computing devices. The concept of "smart object" is defined as the junction between miniaturization with the development of wireless communications. A large number of applications in daily life enriched can be imagined: from PDA networks to smart space, from wireless smartcard to smart fridges. Smart objects ...

Makuhari-Messe,Chiba, Japan The 20th IFIP International Information Security Conference (IFIP/SEC 2005) will be held at Makuhari-Messe, Chiba, JAPAN, May 30-June 1, 2005. IFIP/SEC 2005 is organized by IFIP TC-11 (Technical Committee on Security & Protection in Information Processing Systems) with the support of IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan). Conference scope Papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of computer security are solicited for submission to the ...

Edinburgh, Scotland With the use of mobile devices and current research on ubiquitous computing, the topic of context-awareness is a major issue for future IT applications. Modeling and retrieving context provides means to be integrated in modern knowledge management processes. Intelligent solutions are needed to apply context, e.g., to cope with the fuzziness of context information and, especially because of mobility, with rapidly changing environments and unsteady information sources. Advance ...

Las Vegas, NV The 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The SERP'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, PDPTA'05, CIC'05, ...). The last set of conferences (SERP'05 and affiliated events) had research contributions from 78 countries (the event held in Las Vegas had over 1 ...

Los Angeles, California USA The SIGGRAPH 2005 Committee is searching for those creative souls daring enough to try something different and have them present those achievements in the best forum in the world - SIGGRAPH," says James L. Mohler, SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference Chair from Purdue University. "As the industry's best resource for compounding experience and expanding networks, we will not only continue to focus on core topics, but also encourage submissions from new technology and tangential ...

The first International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet Columbus, Ohio TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and enhancing the services provided by the Internet infrastructure towards any time, any place and any device features. Ubiquitous services impose new requirements to the entire infrastructure, from the system to the middleware and the applications that should be able to adapt traditional service ...

Grenoble, France The Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence conference will explore tools and techniques for augmenting environments with smart, networked, interacting objects. This symposium will bring together designers, engineers and researchers to explore two complementary viewpoints : A device-centric, technology-driven view : concerning physical interaction and processing capabilities for a new generation of networked devices and environments. A service-centric, user-driven view : exp ...

Lisboa Portugal In the past decade, technological developments in material and computer sciences have evolved to the point where their synergistic combination have culminated in a new field of multidisciplinary research in smart structures, systems and related technologies. The advances in material sciences have provided a comprehensive and theoretical framework for implementing multifunctionality into materials, and the development of high speed digital computers has permitted the transformati ...

Brussels, Belgium Integrating Advanced Technologies To Maximise The Interoperability And Operational Effectiveness Of Your Future Infantry Soldier Soldier Technology 2005, now in its 5th successful year will once again provide you with unique access to the key decision-makers, practitioners and customers involved in delivering future dismounted soldier systems. Key Topics: Power Management Integrating Technology Human Factors Night Vision Results Form Testing And Future Setting Futu ...

Las Vegas, NV he 2005 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'05) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27-30, 2005. The ISWS'05 Conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates) with a number of other international Conferences and workshops (PDPTA'05, CISST'05, ICAI'05, ICOMP'05, SERP'05, ...). You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or a proposal to organize a Technical Session/workshop (see the Submission information). All acc ...

Arlington, VA Attend this event and walk away with: Technologies to protect and more efficiently transmit information on the battlefield Acquisition forecasts for IA systems used on the battlefield Networking opportunities with leaders in this specialized field Ideas for better using the GIG for IA purposes Middleware answers for your tactical IA challenges Classification IA solutions for the battlefield IA solutions for the toughest environments Keynote Presentations by: Also Fe ...

Frankfurt Germany Techtextil is the leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens. The complete global market of technical textiles will be showcased at the most important forum for the industry. Discover new materials and innovative concepts. The product groups at Techtextil represent the entire value-added chain in the technical textiles sector. Only at Techtextil is the entire spectrum of technical textiles and nonwovens showcased - from research and development, p ...

Edinburgh Scotland The 10th International Conference on User Modeling (UM'2005) will be held from 24 to 30 of July 2005 in Edinburgh. UM'2005 will be held in Edinbugrh, UK, and organized under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc. UM'2005 is the latest in a conference series begun in 1986 and follows UM 2003 in Pittsburgh (2003) UM 2001 in Sonthofen (2001), UM'99 in Banff (1999), UM'97 in Sardinia (1997), UM'96 in Hawaii (1996), UM'94 in Cape Cod (1994), and several earlier workshops. The User ...

Phoenix, AZ The primary objective of the 17th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2005) is to act as a major international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of parallel and distributed computing and systems, including software, networks, and applications. Phoenix is the fifth-largest city in the USA and is surrounded by the scenic landscape of the Sonoran Desert, providing the excitement of the Old West within a metropolitan area filled with cultural activities. IASTED Secretariat #80, 4500 16th Ave. N.W. Calgary, AB Canada T3B 0M6 Phone: +1 403 288 1195 Fax: + 1 403 247 6851

Riga, Latvia Invitation: You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the 2005 High Performance Computing & Simulation track to be held in Riga, Latvia, June 1-4, 2005 in conjunction with the 19th European Simulation Multi conference (ESM 2005). The track is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in high performance and large scale computing systems, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. Participation is extended to researche ...

Riga, Latvia You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the 2005 High Performance Computing & Simulation track to be held in Riga, Latvia, June 1-4, 2005 in conjunction with the 19th European Simulation Multi conference (SCS-ESM 2005). The track is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in high performance and large scale computing systems, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. Participation is extended to researchers, design ...

Nagasaki, Japan Embedded and ubiquitous computing is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. Its systems are now pervading every aspect of life to the point that they are hidden inside various appliances or can be worn unobtrusively as part of clothing and jewelry. This emergence is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in embedded systems, pervasive computing and communications, wireless networks ...

Univ. of Oslo, Norway Scope The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of parallel and distributed computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architecture * Algorithms & Applications * Cluster Computing * Compilers and Languages * Network-Based/Grid Computing * OS & Resource Management * Peer-to-Peer Technology * Petaflop Computing * Programming Methodologies * Tools * Parallel Embedded Systems * Multimedia & Network Services * Wireless & Mobile Computing

Seattle, WA To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computer and software systems, they must manage themselves, in accordance with high-level guidance from humans – a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The pur ...

Las Vegas, NV Pervasive computing may be defined as anytime anywhere availability of computing resources and services unobtrusively embedded in the environment. In its essence, pervasive computing uses mobile and wearable devices, wireless communications and nomadic or ubiquitous computing systems. Intelligent pervasive computing focuses on merging intelligent and agent-based system with the pervasive computing paradigm. This workshop will cut across several major computer science areas and ...

Beijing, China Traditional human machine interaction is normally based on passive instruments such as keyboard, mouse, etc. It’s impossible for them to understand and express emotions. Without the ability of emotion processing, computers cannot be expected to be a human-like machine, and also cannot be expected to communicate with humans in a natural and harmonious way. Emotion is one of the most important features of humans. We therefore expect that computers should have the ability to proces ...

Las Vegas, NV Workshop Objective: The objective of the workshop is to provide an open and constructive discussion forum of important HCI research in Information Systems that addresses the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks – especially in the business, managerial, organizational, social and/or cultural contexts. HCI in MIS is concerned with the macro level (versus the micro level) of Human-Computer Interaction analysis. The purpose of the workshop is to identify im ...

Calgary, Alberta, Canada The IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2005) will be held from July 4-6, 2005 in beautiful Calgary, Canada. This conference aims to create a major forum for international researchers and professionals to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of computational intelligence. At the foothills of Alberta’s majestic Rocky Mountains, Calgary stands as a major urban centre and is home to nearly one million people. Calgary ...

Sydney, AU This will be the fourth in the series of International Conferences on Mobile Business. Preceding events: ICMB2004, ICMB2003 and ICMB2002. We are aiming for an attendance of over 200 delegates. The major themes of the conference will be: Business innovation - the interrelationship between mobile innovation and improved business practice Emerging wireless technologies Government policy and mobile business The Conference aims to bring together world-leading figures in the mob ...

Phoenix, AZ SPONSOR The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) The IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (IASTED-HCI 2005) will be held from November 14-16, 2005 in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, USA. This conference aims to create an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experience in all areas of human-computer interaction. Phoenix is the fifth-largest city in the USA and is surr ...

Banff, Alberta, Canada The International Conference on Wireless Networks and Emerging Technologies (WNET 2005), sponsored by IASTED, will be a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research, results, ideas, developments, and applications in all areas of telecommunication systems, with emphasis on wireless and optical communications. Its aim is to strengthen relations between the telecommunications industry, research laboratories, a ...

Honolulu, Hawaii The International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications is a major contact venue for research scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research, ideas, developments, and applications in this field. IMSA 2005 aims to strengthen relations among universities, research laboratories and industry. The full papers will be published in the conference proceedings. All papers submitted to this conference will be based ...

San Jose, California The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. We especially encourage full and original papers on emerging technologies such as residential broadband networks and digital appliances, multimedia and QoS support for 3G and ad hoc networks, multimedia in P2P environments, sensor networks and grids, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimed ...

Tromso Norway Telemedicine and eHealth Beyond Tomorrow TTeC 2005 will present research and stories on Telemedicine and eHealth today, tomorrow and beyond tomorrow. TTeC 2005 will focus on the future and frontiers of healthcare and technology. The conference will use the dimension of time in its programme. The first part ("today") will have focus on actual results, on how we did get here and lessons learned. The second one ("tomorrow") on plans and challenges and the last part will be de ...

Copenhagen, Denmark The Internet and the powerful WWW have created a tremendous opportunity to conduct business electronically and a large number of companies are now participating in the global electronic marketplace. However, the most significant advantages of digital business development among private organizations, and between citizens and public administrations, have not been fully achieved yet. The lack of trust in electronic procedures as well as the diversity of threatens to users’ priv ...

Tokyo, Japan UbiComp 2005, the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, will be held September 11-14, 2004 in Tokyo, Japan. The annual conference provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all areas relating to the design, implementation, application and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical areas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond the desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our lives. Last year, over 400 people attended the UbiComp 2004 conference, representing 4 continents, 24 countries and a wide variety of disciplines and perspectives.

Sydney, AU Shephard’s Unmanned Vehicles Asia Pacific conference and exhibition will focus on a variety of issues impacting UAV technology development, procurement, new mission roles/requirements, roadmaps and authoritative global market data and analysis from expert speakers. The maritime/naval role of the UAV will be explored in the Asia-Pacific region (with an emphasis on maritime security and EEZ patrol) as will current operational initiatives using UAVs, with projections for future roles an ...

Orlando, Florida Picture this - an event that brings together all the players of the visual simulation industry for a true technical forum combined with a tradeshow. Introducing ViSTech, the first and only event for the fastest-moving sector of simulation, that brings together commercial and military designers, manufacturers and end-users in one place, at one time – and it will make its debut June 20-21, 2005 in Orlando, Florida. Halldale Media, the organizers of WATS, created this new additi ...

Newport, WALES, UK An Event organised by Smart Clothes Wearable Technology Research Group, University of Wales, Newport and PDR, University of Wales Institute Cardiff in association with SCAN (Southern Collaborative Arts Network) 14 - 16 September 2005, University of Wales, Newport, WALES, UK Deadline for Abstracts: Submissions Closed Final submission for full papers is Monday 4th July 2005 For more information please email: hannah.topping@newport.ac.uk This two day International con ...

Linköping University, Sweden Date: June 13-15, 2005 Location: Linköping University, Sweden Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society, Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University (USA), Linköping University (Sweden) WETICE is an annual, international forum for state-of-the-art research in enabling technologies for collaboration. WETICE-2005 will consist of a number of workshops on different topics related to collaboration technology. The ongoing workshops are ...

Montreal, Canada Purpose The tremendous advances in wireless communications and mobile computing, combined with the rapid evolution in smart appliances and devices, generates new challenges and problems requiring interactions between different network layers and applications in order to offer advanced mobile services. We invite researchers, practitioners and others interested in wireless communications, mobile networking and ubiquitous computing to participate in the first International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob’2005) to be held in Montréal, Canada on August 22-24th, 2005. Telephone: +1 (514) 340-3215

Maui, HI The theme for WirelessCom 2005 is “Wireless and Mobile Technologies for the Next Generation.” WirelessCom 2005 covers timely as well as emerging topics pertaining to wireless networks, communications, and mobile computing. Through addressing the current consumer demands of deploying efficient heterogeneous wireless and mobile networks, supporting ongoing standardization activities, its devotion to futuristic wireless systems, architectures, and algorithms, as well as the active parti ...

Orlando, Fl Information Systems, Technologies and Applications Information Systems Development Development Methods and Methodologies Software Engineering Testing and Quality Assurance CASE Technologies Information Retrieval Evolutionary Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis and Prototyping Special Methodologies for Specific Kinds of Applications (DSS,EIS,etc) User Interface, Human Factors and Interactive Systems Usability Requirements Engineering ...

Linkoping University, Sweden, Motivation The Grid was originally designed as a large network of computer systems able to offer an environment where computing and storage resources are shared on-demand. To date, the development of standards, such as the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), along with the introduction of new paradigms, such as the Semantic Grid, is leading the Grid toward an environment that is not only suited for computational-intensive applications, but also for computin ...

Calgary, Alberta, Canada SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Technical Committee on the Web, the Internet, and Multimedia PURPOSE The International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services is a major contact venue for research scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research, ideas, developments, and applications in this field. WTAS 2005 aims to strengthen relations among un ...

Columbus, Ohio Purpose Wireless networks and mobile computing research has until recently concentrated on single-hop networks (network nodes communicating directly to a fixed infrastructure), such as cellular or satellite systems. Wireless ad hoc networking covers multi-hop scenarios (network nodes communicating via other network nodes) such as conference, hospital, battlefield, rescue, and monitoring scenarios. Wireless ad-hoc networks are formed by a set of hosts that communicate with each o ...